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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/18715009
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20316297
A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.
The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Stripteeters on the edge of becoming a regional conflict. His death further ratchets up pressure on Iran to respond, even as Tehran has signaled in recent months that it wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions crushing its economy.
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Nilforushan served as the deputy commander for operations in the Guard, a role overseeing its ground forces. What he was doing in Lebanon on Friday wasn’t immediately clear. The Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force for decades has armed, trained and relied on Hezbollah as part of its strategy to rely on regional militias as a counterbalance to Israel and the United States.
Somehow everything happening is Iran’s fault. Israel is just doing what's necessary to go after “terrorists”. Who are doing “terrorism” entirely because Iran wants them to and it has nothing to do with Israel’s prior actions.
Terrorists are when people do 0.01% of what israel has done but they are brown
Terrorism is when you're Iranian and in Lebanon and the more Iranian you are, the more terrorist